The cult for the I

The sun strokes my brow
and it blooms like a narcissus
Shall I pose… possibly smile
for a succulent selfie?

The hands no longer shake,
it’s a sober affair.

Now it’s out of hand,
the voracious thirst for the self,
the must of the I —
the eye of the storm —
steadily happy to rant, to impose.

Talk with me, I love it